Chinese Name Generator
Enter a surname, gender and birth date and time for candidate Chinese names drawn by useful elements from the Kangxi library and ranked by the five grids.
What is Chinese Name Generator and what is it used for?
This Chinese name feng shui calculator produces candidate Chinese names. Enter the surname (a compound surname in full), the gender, the birth year, month, day, hour and minute, and the full name length; the birth city is optional. The top of the result is the naming profile for that birth moment: the surname counted by Kangxi strokes (each character can be checked on the Kangxi Stroke Lookup page), the four pillars, and the useful and adverse elements. Below it the name candidates are listed from the highest score down, twenty at a time, with Load more for the next twenty.
The characters are not drawn at random. The four pillars are cast from the birth time and the useful elements are picked from them, then a character pool is filtered from the Kangxi library by those elements, and the pool is paired into two or three character names. Each grid is a sum of Kangxi stroke counts, and every grid number is looked up in the 81-number table; names whose Person and Total grids are both poor are left out of the list.
The length option counts the whole name: 2 characters, 3, up to 3, 4, or up to 4. A compound surname already takes two characters, so fewer options remain. If every combination at a given length is cut by the grid rules, that length produces no candidates and the page says so.
The ranking uses the same four weights as Chinese Name Score: how far the name characters match the useful elements counts 0.4, the grid numbers count 0.3 (Person, Earth and Total carry more weight than Heaven and Outer), the three talents count 0.2 and the tones count 0.1. The three talents read the last digits of Heaven, Person and Earth as one combination and mark it auspicious only inside the traditional 35 combinations. On tones, distinct readings score highest, a heavy share of the fourth tone is deducted, and a fourth tone on the last character is deducted again. Each candidate comes with its reading, the stroke count of every character, and its five grids.
The score reports where a name stands in this set of traditional number rules. It does not judge whether a name is easy to write, whether it sounds like something else, or whether it fits a generation character in the family, and it carries no personal life phases; those calls belong to people. Rare characters absent from the Kangxi library never enter the pool, so they cannot appear in the list.
FAQ
How are the candidates chosen?
The four pillars are cast from the birth year, month, day, hour and minute, with a true-solar-time correction when a city is entered, and the useful elements are picked from them. Characters of those elements are filtered from the Kangxi library into a pool, names are built from the pool against the surname strokes, each is measured on the five grids, the three talents and the tones, and the list is ordered by the four weighted parts. It is not a draw of lucky characters.
Does the same birth data produce the same list twice?
It does. The pool, the pairing limits and the weights are fixed rules, so one surname, gender, length and birth moment gives the same list every time. The list is served twenty at a time, and Load more fetches the next twenty in that ordering rather than drawing again.
Is the birth city required?
No. Without a city the useful elements are picked from clock time; with one, the city longitude corrects the moment to true solar time. For births far west or near a date line, the correction can shift the hour pillar across a two-hour boundary, so both the elements and the character pool come out different.
Can a generation character be required, or one character avoided?
Not at present. The form takes surname, gender, birth data, full name length and birth city only; there is no field for a character that must be used or must not. To work to a generation character, pick from the list by eye, or score a name already settled on with Chinese Name Score.
Does this page work as an English to Chinese name converter?
It does not. Nothing here transliterates an English name or picks characters by how an English sound comes out. The form takes a surname written in characters plus the birth year, month, day, hour and minute, and the candidates are built from the Kangxi character pool by useful element, grid numbers, three talents and tones. The pinyin line printed beside each candidate is the only Latin spelling this page produces.
Is the highest scoring name the best choice?
The score reports where a name stands on four things only: grid numbers, the three-talent combination, fit with the useful elements, and tones. It says nothing about how the characters look when written, unwanted homophones, or a family generation character. The list is an ordering, not a decision.
